Breaking Stereotypes: This is my core competency and my area focus. Here, we teach young girls and inspire women to break away from age-long societal norms, constructs, and stereotypes that have limited their progress. We show them that they can do anything and be whomever they choose to be regardless of society’s dictates. We teach them to discard society’s scripts and follow their individual passion and purpose to be the best version of whom they want to be.
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It is my 2 Year Blog Anniversary!
TODAY IS MY BLOG ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!! On this day, two years ago, I started my blog (roselineadewuyi.com) and so far I have published 126 articles since I first began. I nursed the vision to start this blog while I was in the USA for the MCW leadership program. After the program, everyone needed to embark on a social impact project. My area is gender advocacy and during the course of the training, we all had to write out our plans for the fellowship year. It was a great activity for me. By then, I already had a clear picture of what I wanted to do, and putting it down felt like…
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Men Picking Up The Gauntlet 4!!!
Gender equality is something I am very passionate about. My family, friends, acquaintances, and people connected to me on the cyberspace have always been carried along in the things I do to help make this a reality. I am more or less all about educating the girl child and young women out there and empowering them with values and mindsets that would help them break stereotypes and shatter societal constructs. In my years of advocacy, people have asked me, “why are you focused on just girls, why not do something for boys too?” My answer is always the same, I don’t handle that because it’s not my strong suit. Although…
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The Beauty of an Individual is in his or her Uniqueness
Beauty standards are mostly unrealistic stereotypes upheld by culture, the media, or society. Many times, people expect you to look a certain way – be of a certain height, have a certain hip size, have a certain skin tone, and even certain shoe size. Many times, it makes people who are not those things to feel inferior or less beautiful. It also makes people think you are odd when you tell them you are not obsessed with making yourself look like the “standard.” Over time, we have come to agree that beauty is highly subjective. We even say things like Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This…
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Amazons – Chidinma Ibemere
Education has a major role to play in curbing gender inequality. This is because when educators start at a young age to instill and promote gender equality, it’s easier for the children and teens to grow with it and become adults who see gender equality as a norm. This creates a balanced world and also makes advocacy much easier because the crop of young adults being sent into the society has a good understanding of what gender equality is really about. In light of this, we will be interviewing Chidinma Ibemere, a young Gender Equality Advocate who is also a Biology teacher at Federal Government College Enugu. In this interview,…
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How Educational Institutions can promote Gender Equality
Educational institutions that are supposed to be the hallmark of enlightenment many times fuel gender inequality. It shows in the big decisions, chore assignments, and in little conversations. To achieve gender equality, we have to promote it in our schools. Here are ways we can: 1. Encourage female leadership. Don’t automatically choose male leaders or select male candidates for leadership. Encourage girls to volunteer and participate in leadership. 2. Focus on abilities, not gender. Assign roles and responsibilities like the class captain, etc to people who are qualified. 3. When you have both male and female senior prefects, don’t say that the boy is the number one citizen of the…
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Women, Brace Up!
Women exploring opportunities I have noticed that so many times, it seems that a lot of women are laid back when it comes to applying for opportunities. We have complained that women were not given the opportunities they deserve. Today, things are a lot better and women have more opportunities yet it seems like they are not utilizing it as they should. Not many women are applying for these opportunities. This is part of why most organisers of scholarships say that “Women are encouraged to apply”. Whenever opportunities are announced, usually more than 70% of applicants are male. Most times, this is discouraging especially when you know that more women…
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Amazons – Aisha Abdullahi Abaji
Female Education has a great role to play in Women’s empowerment and gender equality. This is because when you educate the girl, you equip her intellectually. You give her the tools necessary for survival in this modern world. This broadens her perspective and helps to empower her financially by creating opportunities for her. It also opens her up to a world of endless possibilities. Education liberates a woman mentally and makes her see herself as a person capable of making a difference in society. I am very passionate about women shattering societal constructs and breaking away from stereotypes. This is why I am greatly concerned about the girl child education.…
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Fathers who expect a Medal for doing the bare minimum for their Kids.
It bothers me that we have turned parenting into mothering, that is, into a one-woman affair. We have made it look like the emotional and personal needs of children should only be met by their mothers. This is so wrong and it encourages men to be absent and unavailable for their children. Sadly, many women who didn’t have present fathers have gotten so used to this one-sided type of parenting that they see it as normal. Hence, you see them being overly grateful/gushing about every little thing their husbands do for their children. What do I mean? In a group I belong to, someone threw a question to the floor…
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The Tinker Girl
Swinging my bag and walking around the area, I couldn’t believe I had made it out. We used to sit out on the sand and admire those we saw on TV wearing green and white and marching. Today, I was one of them. I had finished school and I had been posted to somewhere to serve. We’d just finished the three weeks camp and I had returned home after years of staying away to tell my people that I had made it. After dropping my bags at home and showering, I had gone round to see my old acquaintances, friends, and the younger ones I’d left behind. My first stop…
